A Guide To Reinsurance Law

This practical guide offers a useful introduction to reinsurance, taking you step by step through the associated issues you really need to know about. An introduction is provided, setting the scene for further chapters on key topics such as the formation of agreements, terms, rights and obligations. The book covers the following areas: Nature of Reinsurance, Formation of Reinsurance, Agreements, Utmost Good Faith, Terms of Reinsurance Agreements, Rights and Obligations of the Parties, Follow the Settlements and Follow the Fortunes, Claims, Intermediaries, Jurisdiction and Applicable Law, Arbitration.

For lawyers and insurance professionals, understanding the special vocabulary and methods of reinsurance law is essential. Reinsurance Law: An Analytic Approach covers all aspects of the field, large and small, from the varieties and uses of reinsurance to complex matters of law, markets and regulation. Topics covered include: types of reinsurance contracts (facultative, treaty, proportional, non-proportional, and others); property and casualty reinsurance; life and health reinsurance; the convergence of reinsurance and finance; U.S. and overseas reinsurance markets; the role and liability of reinsurance brokers; common provisions in reinsurance contracts; reporting requirements; claims of privilege; grounds for disputing coverage; allocation of claims, including the follow-the-fortunes doctrine; rescission; managing general agents, managing general underwriters and pools; litigation; and insolvency of the insurer or reinsurer. This unique guide features detailed discussion of the drafting and documentation of reinsurance contracts, a step-by-step guide to arbitration, and other useful resources for practitioners.

Providing a complete analysis of the law of reinsurance this new edition gives extended consideration to complex areas, such as good faith, and issues on which there is no authority.

Reinsurance arrangements can be enormously complex, and tend to involve very large amounts of money. Handbook of Reinsurance Law offers insurance counsel and reinsurance executives a clear, practical framework for understanding this complex, high-stakes area of the law. In one easy-access volume, Eugene Wollan, a recognized authority on reinsurance law and practice, analyzes in detail the various types of reinsurance, from the basic kinds of facultative and treaty, To all the variations and subdivisions of the latter. In clear, jargon-free terms, he analyzes key decisions in which the courts have wrestled with the intricacies of the law on reinsurance questions, and provides real-world examples of the law in action. Discussion includes relevant aspects of contract law, tort law, agency law, commercial law, legal accounting, advocacy, trial practice and much more.

This is Professor Ian Dennis' new book on the doctrine and theory of the law of criminal procedure in England and Wales. Covering the principal stages of the criminal process, beginning with the investigation of crime, going on to prosecution and the alternatives to prosecution, moving then to the criminal trial, and dealing finally with appeal and review. The objectives of the book will be to expound and analyse the doctrines and rules of the law, to discuss their rationales, and to evaluate their moral and practical justification. This will book will be suitable for both students and practitioners wishing a more in-depth look at Criminal Procedure and Process.

Reinsurance Law: An Analytic Approach covers all aspects of the field, large and small, from the varieties and uses of reinsurance to complex matters of law, markets and regulation.

Insurance Law – An Introduction is essential reading and will provide you with a thorough understanding of all the main areas including motor, property, financial and marine insurance. The book contains the latest case law and best practice with reference to problem areas including fraudulent claims, third party rights against insurers and construing insurance terms. Comprehensive guidance on all key areas from the duty of utmost good faith to choice of law and jurisdictional issues is given by the leading legal experts in the insurance industry.